Favorite and Recommended Fiction:
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Plague by Albert Camus
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
Favorite and Recommended Non-fiction:
The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor
The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America by Ellen Schrecker
Military Power by Samuel Biddle
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 by William Manchester
I love to research and make suggestions! If you'd like a reading list - fiction or non-fiction - or simply suggestions in a given genre (specific historical topic, science fiction, fantasy, feminist writing, current events, etc.) please contact me at ndsheehan@gmail.com
